"Where we need vision, we have a vacuum. Where we need direction, we have drift. This was underscored by your speech on Monday. Leaders take responsibility, but too often that has meant other people falling on their swords. You also need to listen to your colleagues, including backbenchers, and the heavy-handed approach to dissenting voices diminishes our politics."
"The results are in and I am pleased to report that I have delivered against the ambitious targets you set for me when I became your Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. Today's figures confirm that we surpassed our waiting times target despite strikes, and that waiting lists fell by 110,000 in March - the biggest monthly drop outside of Covid since 2008 - meaning that we are on track to achieve the fastest improvement in NHS waiting times in history."
"The only question that matters in government is whether we leave our successors a better situation than we inherited. Ambulance response times for heart attacks and strokes are now the fastest in five years. A&E waiting times are improving, with four-hour waiting figures also the best in five years. We've recruited 2,000 more GPs and satisfaction has risen from 60 per cent to 74.5 per cent since we came to office."
"We hit our target of recruiting 8,500 mental health staff three years early. We've achieved this at the same as balancing the books for the first time in nine years and smashing the 2 per cent NHS productivity target by achieving 2.8 per cent, which means the investment we're putting in goes further and that the public can have greater confidence that their money is being well-spent."
A letter to the Prime Minister reports progress against health and social care targets. Waiting times surpassed goals despite strikes, and waiting lists fell by 110,000 in March, the largest monthly drop outside Covid since 2008. Ambulance response times for heart attacks and strokes are described as the fastest in five years, and A&E waiting times are improving with four-hour figures also at the best level in five years. The letter claims 2,000 more GPs were recruited and satisfaction rose from 60% to 74.5%. It states mental health staff recruitment targets were met three years early while balancing the books for the first time in nine years and exceeding a 2% NHS productivity target.
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